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Housing attorneys claim some landlords have seized on the election of President Trump as new leverage against tenants who want improvements to their apartments, or who the landlords simply want to move out, according to The Atlantic Magazine’s CityLab....Read More »

Housing lawyers are reporting a troubling trend: Landlords exploiting the growing fear of immigration authorities to evict tenants, raise rents, and clear residents from gentrifying neighborhoods.
Shirley Gibson’s client was in jeopardy. A mother of three living in San Mateo...Read More »

Did you know that parents can be charged fees related to juvenile hall detention and probation? Charges can include fees for food and clothing when a youth is detained and ankle monitors for when they are on probation. These fees...Read More »

Daniel Saver entered the state Capitol last week on a mission to speak for a woman who could not speak for herself.
An attorney from Palo Alto, Saver had been in the middle of a drama worthy of Dickens’ pen,...Read More »

The bill was passed to assist Californians who are struggling to repay private loans by lowering the cap on how much wages can be garnished.
The Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday passed Senate Bill 16 by Sen. Bob Wieckowski (D-Fremont) to...Read More »

Low-income people applying for Medi-Cal or other social services often need their medical records to prove their eligibility, but in many cases they have to pay to get them. A bill in Sacramento would do away with those fees.
Those...Read More »